The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Seeing her mother-in-law's actions, Mrs. Lu Li hurried forward, banged on the door vigorously, and shouted:

"Daya, I'm your mother. Your grandmother and I are here to see you. Come and open the door!"

When Lu Qingqing heard Lu Li knocking on the door in the house, she knew that the visitor was not friendly.

But she knew better than to mention that these were just a bunch of bugs. Even if she hid at home and didn't go out to avoid them this time, they would still come back to haunt her in the future.

And if her previous guess was correct, it would be even more troublesome to be harassed on the way to escape the famine, so it would be better to solve it all at once now.

If they are scared, they won’t dare to come again!

Qin Lang heard many of Daya's relatives knocking on the door outside and felt a little nervous.

Lu Qingqing patted his hand soothingly.

"Brother Qin Lang, don't be afraid. They are not my relatives. Only you are. They are different from grandma. They are not really kind to us."

"If a fight breaks out later, don't hesitate. Just attack without getting hurt. Got it?"

Qin Lang nodded.

"Don't be afraid, Daya. I will protect you."

Lu Qingqing held Qin Lang's hand. She definitely couldn't let the Lu family bully them.

Lu Qingqing thought about it, went to the cellar first, took out the key and opened the big lock, which was full of food.

When Wang Dezhe and Lu Xingshun came here before, they also discovered this cellar entrance.

However, the key was in Lu Qingqing's hand, and they tried to break the lock for a long time but failed. This is how the food in the cellar was saved.

Lu Qingqing only left one bag of coarse grains in the cellar, and put the rest into the space.

After coming out and locking the room, he put all the things in the room that looked tidy into the space.

After checking everything and making sure there was nothing good left, he slowly prepared to go out.

Listening to the increasingly rapid knocking on the door and the already somewhat exasperated shouting outside, Lu Qingqing sneered.

Good people are often bullied. She must defeat them once and for all this time, otherwise they will come to her again and again to ask for food and money, and she will not be able to survive like that.

At this moment, filial piety and the opinions of the villagers are nothing in the face of survival.

Outside the gate, Old Mrs. Lu was already getting impatient. She saw that the eldest son's wife had called out several times but there was no response from inside the house.

She remembered that her eldest son seemed to have a better relationship with Daya, so she asked Boss Lu to go forward and knock on the door.

He thought that as long as he could open the door, the Qin family's food would all belong to the Lu family.

Thinking this way, Old Mrs. Lu restrained herself from cursing, for fear that Daya would be frightened and afraid to open the door.

Boss Lu had just knocked on the door when it opened. He thought Daya was still thinking about him and opened it for his sake.

He immediately turned around and looked at my mother with pride, meaning that it has to be me.

Lu Qingqing opened the door with an oil lamp in hand and saw the large group of people from the Lu family. She ignored Boss Lu and asked directly:

"You're knocking on my door so hard late at night. Is there something serious going on?"

As he spoke, he approached the gate, holding an oil lamp and carefully inspecting it bit by bit. He pointed to a scratch on the door and said:

"Ouch! You guys really broke the gate after using so much force. Look at this crack! The gate won't be complete anymore."

"Grandpa Qin specially hired a master craftsman from the county to build this gate. He spent over ten taels of silver. Since you guys broke this part, I won't ask for more than two taels of silver, considering we're relatives."

Mrs. Lu was angered by Lu Qingqing's words.

"Your gate is made of gold, and a small scratch costs two taels of silver. Don't even think about blaming us."

Then he felt something was wrong. They hadn't broken the door, so why should they pay for it? He immediately shouted:

"You little bastard, who said we broke the door? Don't blame us."

"Don't talk nonsense. We elders came here today because we have something to tell you."

After saying this in a pretentious manner, Old Lady Lu looked towards Mrs. Lu Li.

Mrs. Lu Li instantly realized that it was her turn to take action. She quickly stepped forward and tried to hold Lu Qingqing's hand, but she dodged her.

I tried to grab her arm again, but she dodged me again.

Suddenly, she stood in front of Lu Qingqing awkwardly, cleared her throat and cried:

"Daya, our family is out of food. Mom and your dad haven't eaten for two days."

When Mrs. Lu Li said this, she wanted to raise her eyelids to see Lu Qingqing's reaction, but she met her eyes without warning. She quickly lowered her eyelids with some embarrassment and continued to howl.

"Mom and dad are hungry, and your brother is so young. He has no food in his stomach and hasn't pooped in five days."

Before she heard a response, she looked up and saw Lu Qingqing staring at her as if she was watching a show. She instantly felt like she was being teased.

At this time, he couldn't remember what Mrs. Lu had arranged, and raised his hand to hit Lu Qingqing.

In anger, he used too much force, and when Lu Qingqing dodged, he didn't react and rolled to the ground.

Lu Qingqing watched her fall to the ground and almost laughed out loud.

Isn't this just a case of failing to hit someone and getting hurt instead? I've already dodged her twice, but she still hasn't learned her lesson. Who can I blame?

"Oh my, Mom didn't come to my house just to blackmail me! I didn't even touch the corner of your clothes, and you fell down. That's so fake."

Aunt Lu was so stifled with laughter that she trembled a little. She was a little worried that Daya would suffer, and she was thinking about how to help her without leaving any trace.

Now, seeing that my sister-in-law was always being humiliated, I felt relieved.

Mrs. Lu Li was trying to get up, clutching her arm from the fall. Hearing Lu Qingqing's words, she nearly collapsed from anger.

Old Mrs. Lu looked at her eldest daughter-in-law who looked useless, and then looked at Lu Qingqing who had a fake smile on her face and looked carefree. She felt that it was impossible to ask for food in a nice way today.

Thinking of this, he took a few steps forward and said in a commanding tone:

"The Lu family is out of food now, so I came here today to borrow a few bags of food from you. Rice and flour are best, but if you don't have any, coarse grains are fine too."

Lu Qingqing was so angry at the shameless words of Mrs. Lu that she laughed.

"Oh, grandma, you're so arrogant! In the entire Lujia Village, there are only a few families who can afford rice and flour. Even coarse grains and millets are scarce."

"To tell you the truth, I'm out of food. I was planning to borrow some from you, but you were one step ahead of me."

Old Mrs. Lu looked at Lu Qingqing's foolish look and was so angry that she pointed at her for a long time without saying a word. She fell to the ground, holding her chest and gasping for breath.

Today I came to her to ask for food, but she wanted to borrow food from me. She must be dreaming.

Seeing his mother's fingers trembling with anger and unable to speak, Boss Lu immediately turned his face and scolded Lu Qingqing:

"Daya, how can you talk to your elders like that? You don't even understand filial piety. Apologize to your grandma now!"

Lu Qingqing looked at him and thought that the Lu family was really full of weirdos and they were all very shameless.

"Dad, what did I say wrong? My family is really out of food, and I was thinking of borrowing some from you to tide us over. I promise I'll return it after the autumn harvest."

Lu Qingqing looked at Boss Lu with an innocent face, as if she really didn't know what she had done wrong.